Ordinance problems Springfield mass
Hi, I am having trouble with ordinance issues in Springfield mass they are now telling me I can't even park it in my backyard and I pay close to $4000 in taxes here in the city and I have a nice clean...
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raindove wrote:path1 wrote:raindove wrote:
I thought if you had a pre-existing condition, that is now outlawed by ordinance, you could get grandfathered in.
I'm sure everyplace is different. When we were absorbed into a incorp city from the county and could not get a building permit to build a new house on back lot because the city we were put into has a 20 foot wide rule on drive ways. Ours is 17 feet wide. Many of us that were effected by this felt this was wrong and should be "grandfathered". Our "new" city said "no" even though the propaganda said that all pre-existing ordinances would not change.
Our rights are being eroded away, bit by bit. Seriously makes me wonder what kind of world we are leaving to our grandkids to live in.
I remember the screaming matches at the borough meetings - one guy did NOT want to see fences lined up down through town, so no one was to be able to put a fence over 3 ft high in a front yard. Really? A 3 ft fence won't keep many dogs contained. Maybe toy breeds. But my question was that maybe another guy likes fences -- how would the guy fighting it, like it if he was told he HAD to put a fence up.
We are talking about an 88 house borough - not a major metropolitan area. If you blink your eyes, you miss it completely when driving through.
It's all about the "me" mentality so rampant these days.
You'd think they'd be concerned about the boroughs getting out with those 3' fences. ;):B
